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Gaza film, Malkovich drama vie for Venice top prize

Global Published 12 September 2026, 15:10 · archived 12 Sep 2026

VENICE: The Venice Film Festival hands out its top awards on Saturday after two weeks of often dark, violent programming including a chilling Israeli-made documentary about Gaza and an oddball drama starring John Malkovich. “NAZA”, which features Israeli whistleblowers analysing the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, earned a record 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere on Thursday and is the highest-scored film by international critics, according to film magazine Screen. But it faces competition from other well-received movies, including poignant relationship study “Possible Love” by Sou...

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